Nutrition

Overview

At Nutrition from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, you will develop basic nutrition knowledge as a foundation for professional advancement as a nutrition major at IUP. Among the classes you’ll take are Careers in Food and Nutrition, Experimental Foods, Human Food Consumption Patterns, and Nutrition in Disease I. The Natural Science courses required for this degree are flexible to fit your academic needs.

The Nutrition track from Indiana University of Pennsylvania is designed as a solid education in nutrition combined with a related discipline as a subject minor or core concentration. Your options for minors are biology, business administration, chemistry, communications media, educational technology, journalism, psychology, and psychological science.

Students at Nutrition from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania will:

• Have in-depth knowledge of food, nutrition, and behavioral sciences.

• Acquire the ability to apply these theories utilizing problem-solving and critical-thinking skills to improve the quantity and quality of food and nutrition for people now and in the future.

• Understand relationships among academic disciplines (i.e., the natural sciences, including chemistry, physiology, and biochemistry) and apply these scientific principles to the practice of nutrition and dietetics.

• Translate the role of nutrients and healthy food preparation for health and well-being.